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Kachemak Bay (Dena'ina: Tika Kaq’) is a 40-mi-long (64 km) arm of Cook Inlet in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southwest side of the Kenai Peninsula.The communities of Homer, Halibut Cove, Seldovia, Nanwalek, Port Graham, and Kachemak City are on the bay as well as three Old Believer settlements in the Fox River area, Voznesenka, Kachemak Selo, and Razdolna.
The Pratt Museum is a regional natural history museum located in Homer, Alaska, with exhibits exploring life around Kachemak Bay in South Central Alaska. The museum's mission is to preserve "the stories of the Kachemak Bay region", through "collections, exhibits, and programs in culture, science, and art". [1]
Kachemak Bay at sunrise Halibut Cove is one of the main access points to the park. Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park is a 400,000-acre (1,600 km 2) park in and around Kachemak Bay, Alaska, United States. [1] Kachemak Bay State Park was the first legislatively designated state park in the Alaska State Parks system ...
Fox River delta at low tide in Kachemak Bay. The SS Farallon was a wooden Alaskan Steamship Company liner that struck Black Reef in the Cook Inlet on January 5, 1910. [16] All thirty-eight men on board survived, and were rescued twenty-nine days later.
Jul. 24—Brian Herbst had a banner Alaska vacation. He caught rockfish and halibut, saw moose and bears, stayed in a yurt — and in a moment of perfect timing, managed to snap a photo of a minke ...
The boundary for Kachemak Bay NERR encompasses two state critical habitat areas or CHAs (Kachemak Bay Critical Habitat Area and Fox River Flats Critical Habitat Area), and two state parks (Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park). The State CHAs comprise 923 square kilometres (228,000 acres) within the Reserve boundary ...
Yukon Island is an island in outer Kachemak Bay, an inlet of the Cook Inlet of south central Alaska.The island is located about 9 miles (14 km) south of Homer. [4] The island is archaeologically sensitive, with a number of sites documenting the prehistory of the bay.
Nov. 21—A Superior Court judge in Anchorage dealt a blow to people using Jet Skis, Sea-Doos and other personal watercraft on Kachemak Bay. But officials with Gov. Mike Dunleavy's administration ...